Matching changes
which doors are open.
Kinfolk understands you and your network, matches you with compatible roommates, and finds the apartment your group can afford together. Ambient across SMS, quiet until it has something worth your time.
Compatible with
Step one
Sign in once with LinkedIn.
Welcome to Kinfolk.
What’s your LinkedIn?
Continue with LinkedInConnecting…I don’t have LinkedIn
Your identity and contact details stay hidden until both sides approve. Kinfolk only shares context.
Alone, you rent what’s left. Together, you choose.
How it works
From first text to signed lease.
Kinfolk runs the search end to end. You approve the people and the place.
01
Text Kinfolk what you're looking for
Budget, neighborhoods, how you live — a few texts is enough. Kinfolk keeps your profile current from there.
Rincon Hill or SoMa, ~$2.4k each, mid-October.
Saved. I’ll text you when something fits.
02
Meet roommates who fit
When someone fits your neighborhoods, budget, and rhythm, Kinfolk introduces you with the reasoning.
Met Maya — Rincon Hill, same window. Connect?
yes
She approved you back.
03
Lease a place you can split
Splitting rent puts better apartments in reach. Kinfolk lines up the tour, the split, and the lease.
399 Fremont, 2-bed — $2,400 each with Maya. Tour Thursday at 11?
Book it.
Questions
The honest answers.
- Is Kinfolk free?
- Getting matched is free. You tell Kinfolk what you're looking for, it finds your group and a place you can split — there's no Kinfolk fee to do that.
- Are these real apartments?
- Yes. Kinfolk pulls from real listings with live rent estimates, and only surfaces units your group can actually afford together.
- How do you keep me safe with people I just met?
- You stay anonymous — name, photo, and number hidden — until you and a match both say yes. Nothing is ever shared one-sidedly, and matching is grounded in your real identity and the people you already know in common, not anonymous profiles.
- Which cities is Kinfolk in?
- Kinfolk is live in San Francisco today and rolling out one metro at a time after that. Tell it where you're looking and it'll say whether matching is open near you yet.